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Published on July 26, 2018

“A combined effort to create conscious change”

“A combined effort to create conscious change”

By carstories

After noticing trash cans across campus overflowing with plastic cups after events, UNC Kenan-Flagler undergraduate Deanna MacCormac ’17 was determined to find a more eco-friendly solution.

Coincidentally, Patrick Lowery ’16, Lisa Dunleavy ’17, Asher Lipsitz ’16 and Ben Director ’16 were contemplating how to use the same cups as a platform for addressing sexual assault.

It didn’t take long to realize they were onto something: a combined effort to create conscious change. In 2015, Carolina Conscious cups were birthed.

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